The Underground Film. An Introduction to its Development in America

First UK edition. 318pp. Hardback in dust jacket. Slight rubbing to tail of lower board edge. Off-setting to endpapers. Jacket a little rubbed and creased to edges; one closed tear to head of upper panel. Illustrated throughout with b/w photographs and film stills. Published in the USA in the same year as "Introduction to the Underground Film". *** Beginning with a history of the European avant-garde film scene, the book moves on to concentrate on the American underground and the work of, among others, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, Jack Smith, Harry Smith, Bruce Conner, Mike and George Kuchar, Larry Jordan, Jordan Belson, Marie Menken, and Ken Jacobs. An appendix provides a detailed 34pp. listing of underground films available for rental at the time.